HR Pros – Leadership Behavior that Inspires Engagement

The benefit of long experience is the opportunity to make management mistakes and experience poor management practices. It’s always easy to pledge to “not that mistake again,” or vow “not to manage others the negative way you’ve been managed.” Instead, this article is about the basic principles demonstrated by those …

HR Pros – What are Toxic Employees and Bullies are Costing You?

This topic is receiving increased attention today for a few reasons. First, 28 states in the US have reviewed or are reviewing legislation to make serious, targeted bullying a statutory crime (The Healthy Workplace Bill). Second, increasingly research shows the productivity cost to work teams bothered by these distractions. Third, studies also show …

Employee Engagement and Accountability

What’s the ultimate goal of employee engagement? To my way of thinking, the purpose of employee engagement is to enable company success while increasing employee satisfaction and retention.  Programs that increase employee engagement will support and enhance: Employees’ understanding of and buy-in to company strategic goals; Employees full understanding of …